Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Jean PaulRead
The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Death enhances the beauty of life and surroundings for those who are nearing their end.
This quote suggests that as people approach death, they gain a unique perspective on life, allowing them to see beauty in the world around them more vividly. The 'darkness of death' symbolizes the end of life, while the comparison to 'evening twilight' highlights how this approaching end can illuminate the preciousness and loveliness of existence, making it more poignant for those who are dying.
Themes
DeathBeautyTwilightLifePerspective
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used in a eulogy to emphasize the beauty of life in the face of death.
More from Jean Paul
All quotes βMan's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.
Jean PaulRead
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.
Jean PaulRead
There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.
Jean PaulRead
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge.
Jean PaulRead
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.
Jean PaulRead
Similar quotes
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
Jonathan Safran FoerRead
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
Steven Curtis ChapmanRead
My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.
Lech WalesaRead
Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.
Yoko OnoRead
What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.
Ernest BeckerRead
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
John WoodenRead